Sixth Season - Episode 150

SECOND CHANCES

Stardate: 46915.2 - 46920.1
Rating: 11 Humour: - Action: - Tension: ++ Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "RIKER:2=?"

Teleplay By: Echevarria, René
Story By: Medlock, Michael A.
Director: Burton, LeVar
Music: McCarthy, Dennis
Executive: Berman, Rick
Piller, Michael
Co-Executive: Taylor, Jeri
Supervisor: Livingston, David
Producer: Lauritson, Peter
Line-Producer: Howard, Merri D.
Co-Producer: Moore, Ronald D.
Neuss, Wendy

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt.Cmd. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Lt. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Ensign Palmer: Dr. Mae Jemison

Plot

The Enterprise returns to an outpost to retrieve information from the computers that was not taken when the post was evacuated several years ago. The planet is apparently surrounded by an energy field that prevents transport to the planet except during brief periods. When the away team transports down, they find another Will Riker, who was apparently stranded there years ago and who is still very much in love with Deanna Troi.

Goofs

  • Near the end of the episode Cdr Riker is rescuing Lt Riker on the edge of the cliff. In one of the long shots, the stunt double dressed as Lt Riker was wearing a DS9 gold and black uniform tunic, not a TNG tunic. When Lt Riker then gets his next close-up, he's back in a TNG gold tunic. Somebody in the costuming department wasn't careful that day. If it was one of the early TNG uniforms, though, it could have been bunched up around his shoulders (they tend to do that when your arms are raised), so what the viewer sees is the black undershirt.

Quotes

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